HTTPS Shopping Cart and Connection Interrupted Error

[Viper114]

OK, so as I mentioned in my earlier thread, that problem has been solved.  So I've been going around the test site our new host has set up and determining if everything is in working order.  A lot of it is, except I have now found a new problem.

 

If I were to try and buy a product, I put it in the cart, then select Check Out, which goes to an HTTPS page called cart_checkout.php.  Only instead of actually going to that page, it stops and gives me a Connection Interrupted error through Firefox.  This is consistent no matter what's in the cart, even nothing.  I Googled a bit to see if anyone else had a similar problem, and I did find something about someone having problems with Zen Cart (which we're not using).  He had the same problem, and someone suggested that the solution is to basically turn off HTTPS.  I don't think that that is what I want to do, because the cart is supposed to be secure, and simply turning it off so it will work doesn't seem like the safest thing to do.

 

Is there perhaps something else that can be done in this case?

[jammesz]

There's so many possible causes for this other than php. Have you tested a php script to see if it works in https??

If you cant get any php scripts working in the https protocol than it could possibly be your server configuration or something else.

[Viper114]

I came here since the link was going to a PHP file and the suggestion I found referenced a PHP variable to turning off the HTTPS altogether.  Figured that might have been narrow enough to be PHP related.  Maybe it needs to go into a different section of the forum.

 

I'll try some more PHP scripts through HTTPS and see if they work or not.  If not, I'll see what the new host has for HTTPS.

[jammesz]

You could be right with it being a php thing but who knows.

I have little experience with the problems that can come when using https but i do know that if you have a script like so:

 

<?phpecho 'Test';?>

 

and try and access it via https:// url and it doesn't work, then its a server issue.

 

[Viper114]

Yeah, turns out it must be a server issue, because a few things I've tried with HTTPS all come back as such.  OK, so I'll have to ask the new host what to do with those.  Thanks for the clarification.